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When Peacock died in 1895, the newspaper was purchased by businessman William L. McLean. [2] At the time, the last-place Bulletin sold for 2 cents an issue, equal to $0.73 today. McLean cut the price in half and increased coverage of local news. By 1905, the paper was the city's largest. [citation needed]
The News Section, displaying a dramatic page-one headline, "Atomic Energy Provides Man Tool of Death or Good Life," followed with a variety of human-interest stories, a coverage of "1949 in Review," a "Stranger Than Fiction" column and a page of international news. More than a few photos focused on unusual highway accidents. [7]
Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994. The first eleven volumes were published in 1988 by Garland Publishing , which subsequently became part of Routledge .
Unlike these metropolitan newspapers, a weekly newspaper will cover a smaller area, such as one or more smaller towns or an entire county. Most weekly newspapers follow a similar format as daily newspapers (i.e., news, sports, family news, obituaries). However, the primary focus is on news from the publication's coverage area.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Life as the main story: For deaths where the person's life is the main story, where the news reporting of the death consists solely of obituaries, or where the update to the article in question is merely a statement of the time and cause of death, the "recent deaths" section is usually used.
[2] William MacDonald, the obituaries editor of The New York Times, said that the obituaries in that newspaper are not intended to eulogize the deceased person. [3] Nigel Farndale, the obituaries editor of The Times, said that he aims for obituaries that are "balanced accounts" and "deadpan in style", and which do not read like a hagiography. [4]
On Thursday, March 19, 2009, the Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, and Lancaster Today papers were merged into a single edition. [4] That arrangement lasted up until the closure of Today Newspapers in July 2009. Prior to the merger, the circulation figures for the individual papers were: Lancaster Today (4,200), Duncanville Today (2,450), Cedar ...